Relative to FY 2013 enacted levels, the bill increases funding for Customs and Border Protection and cybersecurity but reduces funding for the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It continues funds for state and local law enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement activities, and rejects the administration proposal to decrease the number of detention beds the government maintains for preparing individuals to be deported. It also prohibits the use of ICE funding to provide for abortions and prohibits funds to transfer or release detainees from Guantánamo Bay.

Republicans are developing this year's spending bills based on the $967 billion discretionary spending cap included in the Republican (Ryan) Budget Resolution rather than the $1.058 trillion cap agreed upon in the Budget Control Act. As a result, this bill leaves even less room for other agencies and programs in appropriations bills to be considered later this year, as Republicans try and ‘frontload’ some of the appropriations bills while still promising $91 billion in appropriations cuts.

Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY): “It's my sincere hope that there will soon be a budget compromise that will undo the harmful sequestration law and give us a single, common, top-line allocation that we can work with the Senate to pass all of the funding of the government."